On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Steve Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had asked about this ages ago, and thought I had it solved, but > apparently not. > > I use the standard CatalogBackup job that ships with Bacula (old version > 2.03), and the size of the Volume that thiis job uses grows to 2GB+. I > have reduced the Default Pool Volume Retention to 4 months, but it > doesn't seem to want to switch and start using another volume. I'm > pretty certain that all my other jobs have retentions less than 4 months. > > All of the other "standard" daily jobs seem to do just fine and rotate > volumes as defined, but the Catalog volume just doesn't seem to behave. > Can anyone make suggestions as to why this might happen? Is it perhaps > tied to other volume retention settings? > > Thanks for any help. > > Steve Campbell >
Remember a volume must be Full or Used to begin the volume retention period. Before that it will be appendable and teh retention settings will not make any difference. http://bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Basic_Volume_Management.html#SECTION002611000000000000000 UseVolumeOnce = yes. Maximum Volume Jobs = nnn. Maximum Volume Bytes = mmmm. Volume Use Duration = ttt. Use any of the above for voulme recycling to work. After a volume is marked Full or Used the retention period will count from the last byte written to the volume. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
